The imploded shafts and quarries had become lairs for animals like lynx, leopard and brown hyena. Photos: Supplied/Paardeplaats “We were very excited to discover mine shafts and quarries.

The former mine shafts are no longer considered a safe disposal site for lime kiln dust, and the dust that was placed there has to be removed as part of the overall closure of the mine.

A mine shaft from the old Carrie Mine had opened up behind his house, causing a 30-foot sinkhole. Lucon, a mechanical engineering professor at Montana Tech, has a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old and an ...

County supervisors took another step in their protracted fight with the proposed Rosemont Mine, voting to formally object to the location. The Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to ...

James River Coal Co. received federal bankruptcy court approval Thursday to sell its idled McCoy Elkhorn mine complex in eastern Kentucky to initial bidders after no competing offers surfaced.

Want to see which mines shafts run deep beneath your house? Or where, exactly, your grandfather worked underground? Or even if your planned garage addition will end up as rubble in a long ...